FOND DU LAC, WI (AP)-- Court records show a Michigan man suspected of killing a rookie Wisconsin state trooper after robbing a bank was part of a group of skinheads who attacked black and Hispanic people nearly 20 years ago.
Steven Timothy Snyder and Trooper Trevor Casper killed each other during a shootout in Fond du Lac on Tuesday. The state Department of Justice says Snyder robbed a Marinette County bank earlier in the day.
Snyder was convicted in 1996 of disorderly conduct in Fond du Lac. He was a part of a group of skinheads who walked up to a house and started fighting a group of blacks and Hispanics that emerged.
An officer captured Snyder and found White Power tattoos on his body and cards in his coat promoting the neo-Nazi National Alliance.
